Moník Molinet

Summer 2024 Cycle – Photography
Mexico lapistolademonik.com

"Grandmothers and grandfathers borrowed"
 
Self-portrait photography project in which I recreate family scenes in the domestic space to create a non-existent memory for me: the relationship with my grandmothers and grandfathers. Some of the scenes were conceived from the experiences of my friends and others, from the projection of a personal desire, thus investigating the limits between life and representation, between the natural and the performative.

How is this specific relationship visually and emotionally constructed? How is memory constructed, how can intimacy be created visually? To what extent can art, representational resources and visual language create a powerful visual memory, a feeling that replaces a lack?

We held a casting in Havana calling for more than 100 people, we selected 9 actors and actresses to play my grandmothers and grandfathers. We recreate 29 scenes in their homes
 
The staging was articulated with the resource of breaking the fourth wall or “Verfremdungseffekt” created by Bertolt Brecht, which focuses on ideas and decisions and not on trying to immerse the viewer in an illusory world.


Innovate Grant Honorable Mention Moník Molinet
Innovate Grant Honorable Mention Moník Molinet
Innovate Grant Honorable Mention Moník Molinet
Innovate Grant Honorable Mention Moník Molinet
Innovate Grant Honorable Mention Moník Molinet
Innovate Grant Honorable Mention Moník Molinet
Innovate Grant Honorable Mention Moník Molinet
Innovate Grant Honorable Mention Moník Molinet
Innovate Grant Honorable Mention Moník Molinet
Innovate Grant Honorable Mention Moník Molinet

Artist Statement Biography

Moník Molinet is a Cuban artist based between Cuba and Mexico. Her training has been multidisciplinary, beginning with classical music and arts studies performing arts at the National School of Arts in Havana. Subsequently she specialized in photography at the Academy of Visual Arts in Mexico City, focusing particularly on portraiture.
 
Moník's work is recognized for her feminist activism, addressing issues such as masculinities, body positivity, romantic love and criticism of objectification of the female body. Among his most personal work, the body of work where he addresses the self-portrait, an exercise that he has sustained for more than 10 years as a search and scrutiny of a human identity beneath androcentric social and cultural constructs.
 
Her most recent personal exhibition, "Masculinities," had an impact significant reaching more than 8 million people on social media and being covered by more than 60 media press worldwide.
 
Moník is one of the Caribbean artists beneficiaries of the UNESCO program Transcultura, participating in PhotoEspaña in its 2024 edition.

Moník Molinet is a Cuban artist based between Cuba and Mexico. Her training has been multidisciplinary, beginning with classical music and arts studies performing arts at the National School of Arts in Havana. Subsequently she specialized in photography at the Academy of Visual Arts in Mexico City, focusing particularly on portraiture.
 
Moník's work is recognized for her feminist activism, addressing issues such as masculinities, body positivity, romantic love and criticism of objectification of the female body. Among his most personal work, the body of work where he addresses the self-portrait, an exercise that he has sustained for more than 10 years as a search and scrutiny of a human identity beneath androcentric social and cultural constructs.
 
Her most recent personal exhibition, "Masculinities," had an impact significant reaching more than 8 million people on social media and being covered by more than 60 media press worldwide.
 
Moník is one of the Caribbean artists beneficiaries of the UNESCO program Transcultura, participating in PhotoEspaña in its 2024 edition.

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Innovate Grant Honorable Mention Moník Molinet

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